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The Battle of Stubica on February 9, 1573, the end of the great peasant revolt.

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The Battle of Stubica on February 9, 1573, the end of the great peasant revolt. Ottoman attacks from the end of the 15th century reduced the territory of Croatia to the "remains of the former glorious kingdom", and part of the Croatian territory was also occupied by the Venetians. The burden of wars, along with the nobility, fell mostly on ordinary peasants and serfs. After complaining in vain to the emperor and the ban about the atrocities of the nobles, the peasants stopped paying unreasonable taxes in protest. Because of this resistance, the Croatian Parliament declared the peasants traitors to the homeland, to which they responded with a general uprising against the feudal lords. On the night of January 27-28, 1573, the rebellion began with an attack on the Cesargrad fortress, and Ambroz Gubec (later named Matija, in memory of the "good king" Matija Corvinus) was chosen as the leader of the rebellion.  The insurgents did not limit themselves only to the overthro